If you believe some people on the internet, it heralds the beginning of the apocalypse. For others it was only slightly less worrying than that. The BBC website is to get rid of its archive of 110,000 recipes on bbc.co.uk/food, and lots of people are not happy.

Now allegations of widespread doping in world athletics have turned out to be entirely true — and then some — IAAF president Seb Coe is probably hoping everybody forgets that just three months ago, the Tory peer was dismissing the accusations as “so-called experts” using “so-called information” to make “elevated”, “one-off” and “wide of […]

With the renewal of the BBC charter ultimately a matter for negotiation with the government of the day, we are beginning to see Auntie’s efforts to mollify Tory MPs, a number of whom think the broadcaster is a hornets nest of quasi-communists.